Supervision
Keeping client information private and only sharing with supervisor and other relevant personnel on the team
What is confidentiality?
The maladaptive behavior of using an addictive and/or harmful substance as a coping mechanism
What is substance abuse?
Anything an organism does, including thinking
What is a behavior?
The meaning of the acronym "RBT"
What is Registered Behavior Technician?
A sequence of actions that the client follows every day in the same order
What is routine?
The percent of time that an RBT is required to be supervised by a BCBA
What is 5%?
The behavior of leaving/running away from designated person or situation
What is elopement?
The sort of note taking and discussions that is strictly factual and based on evidence, rather than including personal opinion
What is objective?
The diagnosis for which ABA therapy is the number one most effective treatment
What is Autism Spectrum Disorder?
The frequency of a behavior for a given amount of time (example: 3 times per minute)
What is rate?
The state at the beginning of a program during which initial data is collected to get an understanding of the client's current level of performance
What is baseline?
The behavior of vocally repeating something that was previously heard
What is an echoic?
The behavioral strategy that uses a more desirable activity to reinforce a less desirable activity (example: If you write your name you can draw a picture underneath)
What is the Premack Principle?
The meaning of the acronym "BCBA"
What is Board Certified Behavior Analyst?
The time that passes between the end of one response and the beginning of another response
What is interresponse time?
A client's behavior is impacted because another person is observing/participating in the session
What is reactivity?
An augmentative alternative communication device that allows non-vocal clients to communicate using words
What is the Picture Exchange Communication System or PECS?
What is mentalism? (opposite of philosophy of ABA)
Mingo Health Solutions slogan
What is, "Be the change."
The ability for a stimulus to elicit a particular behavior
What is stimulus control?
A type of data collected by two people simultaneously in order to compare and ensure there are no discrepancies
What is interobserver agreement or IOA data?
The sudden spike in maladaptive behavior as a result of extinction procedures (it gets worse before it gets better)
What is an extinction burst?
The law that states an individual's rate of behavior in a given environment will match the level of reinforcement received for that behavior in the environment
What is the Matching Law?
The three sections in the RBT Ethics Code (you just have to name one)
What are...
1. General Responsibilities
2. Responsibilities in Providing Behavior Technician Services
3. Responsibilities to the BACB and supervisor
Leading up to more difficult behaviors with easier behaviors followed by frequent praise/reinforcement
What is behavioral momentum?